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The July 24, 2006 issue of Fortune, featuring its Fortune
500 list

.The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and
published by Fortune magazine that ranks the
top 500 U.S.
closely held and public
corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after
adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise
taxes companies collect.^The yearly 500 list is published in April.

[1].The list includes publicly and privately-held companies for which
revenues are publicly available.^The list includes publicly and privately held companies for which revenues are publicly available.

.Although the Fortune 500 list is the most familiar one, similar
gross revenue lists of the top firms range from the highest ranking
Fortune 100 including the top one hundred to the broader
ranking Fortune
1000 that includes the top thousand firms.^Fortune Global 500 list.

.Often the
membership on the smaller lists is quite stable, however, the
ranking on the lists may change over time, depending upon revenues
and often, because of mergers among firms already listed.^In 2002, a year in which aggregate revenue slid for only the sixth time in the list's 49-y Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

.The original Fortune 500 was restricted to companies whose
revenues were derived from manufacturing, mining, or energy
exploration.^The Fortune 500 is a list of the top 500 US Companies by yearly revenues.

Top Companies List: US Largest by Revenue- includes Fortune 500 10006 February 2010 11:31 UTCwww.lead411.com [Source type: General]

.At the same time, Fortune published companion "Fortune
50" lists of the 50 largest commercial banks (ranked by assets),
utilities (ranked by assets), life insurance companies (ranked by
assets), retailers (ranked by gross revenues) and transportion
companies (ranked by revenues).^The Fortune 500 is a list of the top 500 US Companies by yearly revenues.

Top Companies List: US Largest by Revenue- includes Fortune 500 10006 February 2010 11:31 UTCwww.lead411.com [Source type: General]

.These have been consolidated into
one single list, so the Fortune 500 as it exists today includes
companies that in previous years would have been on one of the
"Fortune 50" lists.^Financial Representative - Fortune 500 Company .

Myra Rutledge, heiress to a .Fortune 500 candy
company, looked around her state-of-the-art kitchen, at the pots
bubbling on the stove, at the table set for two.^Fortune 500 is a list of 500 largest companies of the United States of America.